Steven Dyble practises from chambers' Chelmsford annexe, covering all areas of crime but with a particular emphasis on murder and sexual offences.
He regularly takes leading briefs, both for the prosecution and defence. He is consistently briefed by the CPS Complex Crime Unit.
He has also defended cases brought by BERR.
Cases of Note:
2008 Goff. Violent disorder
2008 Elliot. Successful defence of a murder charge.
2008 R v R Successful defence of a client with mental age of 5years, charged with rape.
2008 R v Nicholls. Successful defence of a murder charge, where the accused were a young couple aged 15 and 17 charged with the murder of their baby.
2008 R v Radaslaw. Drugs importation
2007 R v Cudbill and ors. Negotiated plea in a multi-million pound cocaine conspiracy and money laundering VHCC case.
2007 R v Shelley and ors. Leading brief for the prosecution, conspiracy to blackmail
2007 R v Wilson. Prosecution, conviction secured in a case alleging the manufacture of explosive substances
2007 R v Negatin. Prosecution, led by Patricia Lynch QC, a controversial and highly publicised people trafficking case
2007 R v Brauer. Defence of allegation of attempted murder
2006 R v Squires. Defence, secured a plea to manslaughter in a case where the accused had stolen a landrover and run over the owner
2005 R v Armstrong. Secured a conviction for historic rape and sexual abuse case dating from 1970’s
2005 R v Danielle Carter. Secured acquittal in a case of attempted murder.
2005 R v Street. Defence brief in a case of armed robbery, known as Operation Arctic, that was widely reported. He defended the leader of a ram raiding gang and negotiated a plea with the prosecution.
2005 R v Golubev. Leading brief for the defence in a 5 handed international fraud case involving the cloning of credit cards and evidence from Lithuania and Spain. The accused was aquitted after successful half time submissions on jurisdiction and the ambit of the conspiracy
2005 R v Newson. With Richard Potts, a leading brief for the defence in a manslaughter case, based on health and safety breaches, that required extensive cross examination based on engineering issue.
2005 R v Mahoney and ors. Prosecution, led by Patricia Lynch QC, a heroin importation case. He advised at all stages of the preparation of this multi-national case, that also concerned PII issues
2005 R v Baker. A case that was widely reported locally, a prosecution for breach of trading standards, involving the importation of honey, that was mis-sold as locally produced.
2004/5 [Name withheld] Court of Appeal, husband and wife charged with ritual abuse of children, defence
2004 R v Addison and ors. Defence of TPO case
2004 R v Dixey. Successful defence of a Commander in Salvation Army charged with the sexual abuse of cadets
2004 Operation Taurus. Defence brief in TPO case
2003 R v Ashley. Defence in a 10-week trial, of the Suffolk Police Armourer, alleged to have 200 weapons in his illegal possession. The accused was acquitted of the principal counts. The case involved complex expert evidence on the nature of the weapons and on the construction of Home Office regulations.
2003 R v Bauer and ors. Led by Martyn Levett in the prosecution of a multi-handed murder committed by a girl gang, who poured petrol and then set the victim alight. Reported in [2003] EWCA Crim 106, Arch 5-211h, on sentencing tariff.
2003 R v Whitten. Successful defence of a client accused of rape of a 5 year old girl. The evidence consisted of DNA from hair and the defence was incidental transference
2002 R v Taylor. Defence in a case of domestic murder
2002 R v Wassell. Prosecution of a husband for murder of wife in a case where the sole evidence was a fibre found at the point of wound entry that matched his clothing
2002 R v Lasky . Successful prosecution of charges of the kidnapping and blackmail of a lottery winner.
